Finnair CEO Pekka Vauramo believes the biggest challenge for the oneworld member will be to grow further to reach a more competitive size as soon as possible.
St Helena is currently widely regarded as the world's most inaccessible inhabited island, but all this will change in February 2016 with the opening of the first airport on St Helena. The tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean is Britain's second oldest remaining of the British Overseas Territories, after Bermuda, but accessibility has been limited to an almost week long sea journey.
Irish budget carrier, Ryanair is to significantly grow its activities from Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle airports in the UK next year, introducing a total of ten new routes from the three facilities as part of an expanded offering from the summer schedule.
A recent attack from the newly appointed Odessa governor and former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili on the State Aviation Service Administration of Ukraine blaming its chief for using his flight assignment powers to preserve a near-monopolistic grip on the market, while protecting interests of individual oligarchs has resulted in immediate action which could finally bring open skies to Ukraine.
Several carriers are taking over Transaero’s domestic destinations to Russia’s Far East after authorities canceled its air operator’s certificate Oct. 26 due to financial and safety concerns.
SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, will launch its first Airbus A330-200 long-haul flight for Eurowings from Cologne to Varadero, Cuba, on Nov. 2.
The Polish market has contributed significantly to Wizz Air's success with around 40 per cent of its phenomenal growth linked to Polish customers and visitors in and out of the country. Next year it will again play host to Routes Europe.
A German court that granted Etihad Airways temporary permission to continue operating all codeshare flights with airberlin through Nov. 8 has extended the approval until Jan. 15, 2016.
Airports Company South Africa has signed a Sister Airports Agreement with Munich Airport Group, agreeing on areas of cooperation and information sharing.
Located around 20 kilometres south of Bergen city centre, the airport handles more than six million passengers each year, but existing facilities are operating above capacity and many of the airport’s subsystems are heavily congested during peak periods.
WestJet will introduce a twice daily domestic service between London Metropolitan Area Airport and Lester B Pearson International Airport in Toronto from the end of March 2016. The link, operated by its regional division WestJet Encore using Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 NextGen turboprop equipment, will complement its existing service to Calgary and seasonal sun charters to the US and Caribbean from London.
Saab is nearing completion of the demonstration phase of an experimental remote tower system at a reliever airport for Washington Dulles International Airport.
Russian authorities have canceled 141 of the defunct Transaero Airlines’ international route designations and have transferred 56 of them to Aeroflot and subsidiary Rossiya Airlines.
The eight times weekly link will be flown using a 254-seat Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and will increase the Gulf carrier’s offering between Doha and the UK to 71 flights per week, further strengthening connections to Africa, Asia and beyond.
The A380 will operate flights EY460/461, one of the airline’s twice daily Abu Dhabi - Melbourne services from June 1, 2016, substituting one of the three-class Boeing 777-300ER aircraft it currently deploys on the route. The move will increase the total number of two-way seats on the Melbourne-Abu Dhabi route by 26 per cent to more than 11,500 seats per week.
Kaluga International Airport will launch international flights Nov. 16 when Tadjikistan’s Asia Express Airline and Russia’s Ural Airlines fly into the new airport.
